"Time To Go Home" CSX's J726 crawls past Lafayette Amtrak station on its way back to Avon Yard.

J726 waits to depart Lafayette while NS 9451 flies by with an autoparts train.

This pair of semaphores have only 2 days left before they will be taken down putting an end of almost 100 year era on the CSX Monon Sub. J726 North passes the set at Main street at Crawfordsville,... (more)

CSXT 8181 leads three other engines on Indy to Lafayette Turn J726 through the blades on the north side of Crawfordsville. A special thanks to the home owner for being so cool about railfans takin... (more)

A veteran SD40-2 leads 5 other EMDs on J726 as they split the now removed blades at South Romeny just days before they were removed.

J726 passes the endangered blades in Crawfordsville on its way back to Avon on a beautiful winter day.

CSX 8052 splits the unique semaphore pair on the north side of Crawfordsville, Ind., including the "shorty" absolute signal on the right. Six units are wheeling 97 cars southbound on the former Mo... (more)

CSX's Avon, Ind./Big Four Yard to Lafayette, Ind., turn J726 charges southbound through the intermediate semaphores just north of Linden, Ind. The semaphores and pole line are scheduled to come do... (more)

CSX J726 south splits the semaphores at Romney, Indiana on the old Monon Sub. Icy winds are blowing just minutes before the sun sets. Not many more trains wil pass this signal as they will be take... (more)

Just minutes before sunset, a late running J726 roars southbound past the endangered semaphores at south Romney on a bitterly cold December evening. Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Romney, Indiana, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 8029
Train ID: CSX J726
Photo Date: December 05, 2008

Monday's edition of the Avon-Lafayette turn heads back south past the South Raub defect detector and single semaphore. This is as far north as the blades go on the former Monon.

CSX southbound J726-10 splits the semaphores at Crawfordsville, Indiana. The blades are due to be replaced this winter. The video of this scene can be seen on railvideos.net at this link. http://... (more)

Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug... J726 heads back to Indianapolis light-power, passing one of the soon-to-be replaced sets of semaphore signals north of Linden. This... (more)

The end may be near for the Monon semaphores so we try to capture one more image before they're gone on this first day of November.

J726 heads south on the Lafayette Sub, spliting the semaphores at MP 133.2